 Freddie, welcome to AFC Bournemouth. How pleased are you to be here? Yeah, I'm absolutely delighted. It should have, it was meant to happen in the summer but I think everything happens for a reason and I'm just so happy to be here now and to get it over the line, especially on the last day is brilliant for me. There are obviously those rumours and links in the summer, there was the rumours and links over the last few days. What have the last sort of 24, 48 hours been like for you? Yeah, it's been busy for me. We had a trip to Saudi Arabia with Newcastle and I got wind that I'd be coming down here as soon as I got back. So yeah, I had to get back from Saudi to Newcastle, then down to Bournemouth. It's been a bit of travelling but it'll be worth it because I feel like I've signed for a fantastic football club. Now there's a lot of connections between AFC Bournemouth and Newcastle United at the moment. Did you speak to the coaches before you came here and what did they have to say to you about the club? Yeah, definitely. First and foremost I spoke to the players, you know, Callan Wilson, Matti Ritchie, we've got We-Man as well. There's a lot of connections and they spoke so highly about the club and they knew that if I did come down here that I would enjoy it. So they were really pushing for me to come down here and then obviously the management staff, they've been brilliant since they've come in, really tried to help me and improve me as a player and they was definitely all for me coming back here. Now you first played at Vitality Stadium with England under 21, it was a 3-0 win in the European qualifier over Latvia in 2017. What do you remember of that game? I don't remember much about the game but I remember much about staying in Bournemouth. I stayed in, I think it was the Hilton and my roommate at the time, Dale, we played for Middlesbrough, we were just saying how nice it must be to play down in a place like Bournemouth. People are great, people are so welcoming, it looks like it's a great city so I'm really happy to come down here and actually live down here as well. More recently you would have played here for Swansea City in the championship last season. What did you make of the facilities? Obviously the game was behind closed doors but it was probably a bit more recent in your memory. I remember the pitch being like a carpet, that's what I do remember. I remember walking out and thinking the pitch was absolutely unbelievable. But yeah, I was annoyed that I wasn't able to play in front of a crowd down here because I always know it's a decent atmosphere. I've been on the bench a few times for Newcastle when Bournemouth won the Premier League and I always remember it being a really loud stadium so I'm sure that when we do come to the games I'll be excited to hear that atmosphere. You've had several loan spells over the last few years, some in League 2, some in Scotland but that loan spell with Swansea must have really given you a feel of what the championship was all about. Yeah, it was massive for me. It was massive two years spent down in South Wales. It was fantastic and it's given me this burning energy that I want to get out of this league and that was one of the main reasons why I wanted to come here. It's been eating away at me that I didn't manage to do it with Swansea and I was twice or so close to doing it and so yeah, I've come here with the full focus of that is the aim to get this team and this club into the Premier League. That was in fact my next question. You've been so close to that promotion in the last two years. Can you sort of channel that energy and almost disappointment from the last couple of years into the last six months of the season here? Yeah, 100%. It hurts when you don't go up, especially twice on the bounce and I've sort of channeled that energy into every training session I do, every gym session I do is the full focus of I need to do this again and really try and get a team promoted from the championship so hopefully I can come here with my experiences from the championship before and really help the team because I know that they're doing fantastically well at the moment so hopefully I can add to that. Someone who's always been there in your career is your dad Andy. He's now manager of Bromley. They're going well in the National League. Just tell us a little bit about your relationship with him. You must certainly get a lot of your winning mentality from him. Yeah, 100%. He's doing a fantastic job at Bromley. Yeah, he's a fun interesting character but yeah he's been brilliant for me throughout my career. He's actually come down today. They got a day off at Bromley so he's come down with me to sign today which is a nice moment so yeah he's been fantastic for me in my career and he really gives me that drive and that ambition to go on to win things. Now in terms of your connections who are already here you won the under 17 Euros and the under 20 World Cup. Lewis Cook was in both of those squads I think you said you've roomed with Lloyd Kelly. You'll obviously know Dominic Solanke and Aaron Ramsell who was previously here from from your England days with him. Just tell us you know it must seem like a bit of a family feel round here. Yeah it's nice. It is nice coming into a club and you know know a few faces. Obviously Cookie was was my captain when we won the World Cup one of my you know best that best achievements as a player and I'll always I'll always keep calling him Skip for it you know I still see him now and call him Skip sort of just stuck. He's a great guy. I've roomed with Lloyd like you said Lloyd Kelly at the under 21s Euros and obviously played with Solanke for a long time so yeah a lot of connections coming down here and it's always nice walking into a change room where you know a few familiar faces. It's not just England where you've made those connections you've obviously played with Jamal Lowe at Swansea your lone speller Aberdeen you're with Ryan Christie have you had much of a chance to speak to them and are you looking forward to seeing them when you can? I haven't I haven't actually spoke to anyone I don't until it's actually done it's that's when I'll start speaking to people so I haven't haven't done anything like that so far but really looking forward to seeing you know Ryan after after so long and obviously seeing Jamal spent spent a great time with Jamal at Swansea and we had a lot of competition in training and a good bit of banter so yeah looking forward to seeing seeing them both. And just finally I'm sure we all know the answer but what are your goals and ambitions for the rest of the season that promotion to the Premier League must be right at the forefront of your mind as you say? Yeah that's that's definitely at the forefront of my mind it's you know my ambition and my goals is to come here and help this team I think the team has done fantastic already so far this season and I just feel like I can you know come in and add to that I feel like with my character with my experiences hopefully I'll be good around the place and I'm really hoping to help the team you know achieve that that goal of getting into the Premier League.